Table of Contents

Cover Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Author Note Kokoda Track or Trail?

Maps

Part One Landing

Chapter 1 Missionaries

Chapter 2 Yokoyama

Chapter 3 Intelligence

Chapter 4 Chocos

Chapter 5 Port Moresby

Chapter 6 Kokoda

Chapter 7 Kokoda Lost

Chapter 8 The Sasebo 5 Special Naval Landing Party

Part Two Invasion

Chapter 9 Defenceless

Chapter 10 Curtin

Chapter 11 Commanders

Chapter 12 Emperor

Chapter 13 The AIF Arrives

Chapter 14 The Track

Chapter 15 Nankai Shitai

Chapter 16 Jungle

Chapter 17 Isurava

Chapter 18 Milne Bay

Part Three Withdrawal

Chapter 19 Wounded

Chapter 20 Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels

Chapter 21 Buckler

Chapter 22 Myola

Chapter 23 Butcher’s Hill

Chapter 24 Rout

Chapter 25 The Lost Battalion

Chapter 26 Ioribaiwa and Imita Ridge

Chapter 27 Press

Chapter 28 Blamey and Rowell

Chapter 29 ‘Rabbits’

Part Four Counteroffensive

Chapter 30 Civilians

Chapter 31 Hunger

Chapter 32 Retreat

Chapter 33 MacArthur

Chapter 34 Pursuit

Chapter 35 Biscuit Bombers

Chapter 36 Anthropophagy

Chapter 37 Templeton’s Crossing

Chapter 38 Eora Creek

Chapter 39 Vasey

Chapter 40 Kokoda Regained

Chapter 41 Oivi–Gorari

Chapter 42 Horii

Chapter 43 Catterns

Chapter 44 Madness

Part Five Annihilation

Chapter 45 Gona

Chapter 46 Koitaki Factor

Chapter 47 Honner

Chapter 48 Mosquito

Chapter 49 Americans

Chapter 50 Buna

Chapter 51 Eichelberger

Chapter 52 Tanks

Chapter 53 Christmas

Chapter 54 Sanananda

Chapter 55 Gyokusai

Chapter 56 Self-immolation

Chapter 57 The End

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes

Index

About the Author

Praise

About the Publisher